1.9 ▼ -5.0%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Chermside · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Chermside
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Chermside than in most similar areas, with 41.9% of households consisting of just one person. This makes the area feel much smaller in scale, as the typical home contains only 1.9 people. This figure is well below the Queensland and national average of 2.5 people per home.
1.9
▼ -5.0%
- 1.5–1.6: 490 areas
- 1.6–1.8: 168 areas
- 1.8–1.9: 642 areas
- 1.9–2.1: 816 areas
- 2.1–2.2: 1854 areas
- 2.2–2.4: 1319 areas
- 2.4–2.5: 2753 areas
- 2.5–2.7: 1349 areas
- 2.7–2.8: 2332 areas
- 2.8–3.0: 805 areas
- 3.0–3.1: 1044 areas
- 3.1–3.3: 289 areas
- 3.3–3.4: 386 areas
- 3.4–3.6: 110 areas
- 3.6–3.7: 85 areas
- 3.7–3.9: 40 areas
- 3.9–4.0: 258 areas
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Chermside — lower than 89% of areas.
| Chermside | 1.9 |
|---|---|
| 4032, QLD | 2.2 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
One-person households are among the highest at this level, making up 41.9% of the total. This is far above the national figure of 25.6%, while 36.2% of homes hold two people.
41.9% ▲ +7.2%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 39.1%
- 2016: 39.3%
- 2021: 41.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Chermside, the largest group is 1 person at 42%, followed by 2 people (36%) and 3 people (12%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 18.9% of the total, which is well above the Australian figure of 14.1%. Other family types are split almost evenly between couples with children (38.6%) and those without (38.9%).
18.9% ▼ -7.6%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.5%
- 2016: 17.8%
- 2021: 18.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Chermside splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (39%) and Couples with children (39%), with One-parent families at 19%.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Chermside [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30593/chermside/topic/family-households